Artificial wax.



JULIUS inwr, or. KONIGSBERG, PRUSSIA, GERMANY.

ARTIFICIAL WAX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 17, 1905.

Application fi1ed Iebrnar'y 1 1905. Serial No- 243,638.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known'that' I, JULIUS LEWY, a subject of the King of Prussia, German: Emperor, and a resident of Koni sber'g, in. the Kingdomof Prussia, German Tfimpire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Artificial Wax, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

By my invention a naphthol, preferably beta-naphthol, is added to substances used in making artificial wax com ositions destined, for instance, for the manu acture of candles, wax matches, wax flowers, and the like such as paraifins or mixtures of paraflin with ceresins or *stearin (a mixture of stearic acid and palmitic acid,) such as are used for making so-called composite candles. This addition has the effect of suppressing the more or less great transparency of paraffin and of the mixtures of paraffin with the compounds mentioned above, a fact particularly valuable in the manufacture of composite candles, imitated wax matches, wax flowers,

and the like. If beta-na hthol is used, it will give to the mass the fine white color of good stearic acid, While alpha-naphthol being used the mass will often ;get a reddish appearance. The proportion of the addition may vary within wide limits, and the mixture is made at a temperature suitable to the nature of the materials used. The addition may be made either during the process of manufacture of the paraffin or to the final product and its mixtures. The naphthol is mixed. with the other substances used while these are in a melted condition or when they are heated to a more elevated temperature.

Mixtures suitable for the production of candles are obtained by heating together While'stirring the following substances up to eighlty to ninety (80 to 90) degrees centira e. g Example 1: One hundred (100) arts of paraffin and two (2) parts of beta nap thol.

Example 2: One hundred (100) parts of paraffin, five (5)parts of stearin, and two (2) parts of beta-naphtho'l. Example 3: One hundred (100)- parts of paraffin, three (3) parts of ceresin, and two such additions may be intermixed which are able to lower or raise to the melting-point of the mixture. I

, Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As a newcomposition of matter the mixture containing parafiin and a naphthol,sub stantially as described;

2. As a new composition of matter a mixture containing paraifin, stearin and betanaphthol, substantially as described.

3. .As a new composition of matter the mixture containing arafiin, stearin and a naphthol, substantia y as described.

4. As a new composition of matter the mixture containing araffin, ceresin and a naphthol, substantially as described.

5. As a new composition of matter themixture containing paraffin, stearin, ceresin and a naphthol, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribin witnesses.

LIUS LEWY. Witnesses:

HENRY HASPER, WOLDEMAR HAUPT. 

